The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-03-07
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Cholera is waning in South America
The Indian still holds $4,000, ooc
acres in the United States.
The Maine Knights of Labor have
passed resolution to boycott the rum.
shops.
Ninety-four out Of Iro graduates oil
Delaware College, Ohio, are Prohibi
tionsts
New York has forty millions worth oil
church property exempt from tax1tion.
Grasshoppers frequently cover the
railroad tracks in Venezuela and delay
trains.
An artesian well at st Augustine, Fla,
throws up $1,000, 900 gallons Of sulphur
water daily.
OF the 10000 Hebrews in New York
city not one is in any way connected
with the liquor business
1t is reported that 1000 German
officers entitled to retirement have
asked to be kept in active service.
It is said to be estimated. in Ameri-
can railroad circles that fully $4,000
miles Of new railroad will be built in
1887.
The guests at the Central Hotel at
Atlanta, Ga, refused to dine in the
same room with a Chinaman, who en-
tered with Mrs. NJ. i. Vanderpool,
Northern lady.
The new State Department at Wash.
ington has $50 rooms and cost IS, ooo,-
900. The new War Department has
I75 rooms and coa $s,5oo,ooc.
The three trees under which Jefer
son Davis rested at the time of his cap.
ture near Irwinville, Ga, have been
burned to stumps by a stroke of'light-
ming.
The longest span of wire in the world
is used for telegraph wire in India
over the river Kistnah. 1t is more
than 6,ooo feet in length and is 1000
feet high.
The medical colleges Of the United
States have graduated over $4,000
physicians during the past nine
years, and the present rate is about 4,
900 per annum,
A writer in a Washington newspaper
suggests that the word "boodle" is
doubtless derived from the Dutch word
"boedel," which means property or
goods.
Messrs Barring Brothers, Of London,
cleared a round $4,000, 900 on the job
of floating Guinness Stout Company,
and were so pleased that they gave on
Christmas years salary to each Of their
employees.
The custom Of wearing black for
mourning was introduced by Anne of
Brittany, wife Of Charles VIII ofFrance,
afterthe death OF that monarch in 1903.
The widowed Queen had previously
worn white, which was also the mourning
of the Spaniards until 1895.
1t has been decided that the public
celebration of the Queens jubilee is to
be held on Monday, June goth, the
day fixed for the thanksgiving service
in Westminster Abbey, which her Ma
jestywill attend.
Fred. Douglass, during a visit to the
French House of Deputies, was struck
by the fact that no member chewed
tobacco, or smoked, or put his feet
above the level of his head, "as is some
times seen in our National Legislature.
The municipal authorities of Lime
rick have refused, in the name of the
city, to celebrate the Queens jubilee,
on the grounds that her Majesty has
visited Ireland only twice during her
reign and that she has never assisted
Irish charities.
1t is now just about quarter of a |
century since Bismarck uttered the
most famous Of all his historic phrases
1t was in budget debate, in which he |
was beaten by an adverse vote. at is
not" he said, "by speechifying and the
votes of majorities that the great ques- |
lions of the age are to be settled, but
by blood and rom N. Y. Tribune.
They are trying to introduce green
chalk into some Of the bllliard-rooms
Of Chicago. 1t is claimed that the
chalk loses none of its adhesiveness by
reason of its artificial color, and that Il |
possesses the merit of preserving the
color of cloth. Chalk, as it is used al
present. soon fades the heaviest emerald |
cloth, and makes the tables appear I'M
slightly and worn.
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